Jose de Jesus Noe

Jose de Jesus Noe (1805-17 March 1862) was the Alcalde of Yerba Buena (Mayor of San Francisco) from 1842 to 1843, succeeding Francisco Guerrero and preceding Francisco Sanchez, and again in 1846, succeeding Jose de la Cruz Sanchez and preceding Washington Allon Bartlett.

Biography
Jose de Jesus Noe was born in Puebla, Mexico in 1805, and he came to Alta California in 1834 and settled in the town of Yerba Buena (now San Francisco). From 1842 to 1843, he served as Alcalde, and he served again in 1846. Noe was  the last Mexican alcalde, as the city fell to the United States on 9 July 1846 during the Mexican-American War. He held the Rancho San Miguel from 1846 until 1852, when he sold it, and he died in San Francisco in 1862.